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SIAMCOMP
2002
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15 years 5 months ago
The Nonstochastic Multiarmed Bandit Problem
Abstract. In the multiarmed bandit problem, a gambler must decide which arm of K nonidentical slot machines to play in a sequence of trials so as to maximize his reward. This class...
Peter Auer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freun...
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Classifying scheduling policies with respect to unfairness in an M/GI/1
It is common to evaluate scheduling policies based on their mean response times. Another important, but sometimes opposing, performance metric is a scheduling policy’s fairness....
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter
SIAMCO
2008
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Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment: A Graphical Approach
This paper presents new graph-theoretic results appropriate to the analysis of a variety of consensus problems cast in dynamically changing environments. The concepts of rooted, s...
Ming Cao, A. Stephen Morse, Brian D. O. Anderson
HPCC
2007
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
A Complex Network-Based Approach for Job Scheduling in Grid Environments
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
NIPS
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Joint Tracking of Pose, Expression, and Texture using Conditionally Gaussian Filters
We present a generative model and stochastic filtering algorithm for simultaneous tracking of 3D position and orientation, non-rigid motion, object texture, and background texture...
Tim K. Marks, John R. Hershey, J. Cooper Roddey, J...